North Carolina Forward Party

Tired of being yanked from the LEFT to the RIGHT and never seeming to actually move FORWARD on critical issues facing these United States and her People?

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
— Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

Tonight in Greensboro:

Majority Rules 101
Film + panel on Instant Runoffs / Ranked Choice Voting

Hidden Gate Brewery
Doors 7 PM | Program 7:30 PM

Featuring Lennie Friedman, Vice Chair, NC Forward Party

RSVP: https://t.co/5per4AB4hD

#GreensboroNC #ncpol

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

Tonight in Greensboro:

Majority Rules 101
Film + panel on Instant Runoffs / Ranked Choice Voting

Hidden Gate Brewery
Doors 7 PM | Program 7:30 PM

Featuring Lennie Friedman, Vice Chair, NC Forward Party

RSVP: https://t.co/5per4AB4hD

#GreensboroNC #ncpol

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

NC Forward Party was proud to stand with Congressman Don Davis this past weekend in Rocky Mount.

Eastern NC deserves leaders who listen first, build coalitions, and put people over party.

Read more: https://t.co/Zc3e80Yx3d

People first. Solutions first. North Carolina forward.

#NCForwardParty #DonDavis #NC01 #PeopleOverParty

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

Reminder: tomorrow night in Greensboro.

Join us for Majority Rules 101 — a free film + panel on Instant Runoffs / Ranked Choice Voting.

Panelist: Lennie Friedman, Vice Chair, NC Forward Party

Hidden Gate Brewery
Doors 7 PM | Program 7:30 PM

RSVP: https://t.co/fUbLxrsf2H

#GreensboroNC #NCVoters #ncpol

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

Kelly McCullen said it plainly:

NC needs more political choices.

That is why the NC Forward Party is working to become an official political party and get on the ballot.

Listen here:
https://t.co/17ES2sWkQv

Want to help? Petitions must be signed in person.

#NCVoters #ncpol

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

In NC, a candidate can win a party primary with only 30% of the vote.

Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoffs help ensure winners earn majority support — without forcing voters to worry about “wasting a vote” or choosing the lesser of two evils.

Join us June 3 in Greensboro.

RSVP: https://t.co/fUbLxrsf2H

#NCVoters #GreensboroNC #ncpol

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

Great update from NC Forward Party Chair Pat Newton:

Signatures are being mailed in from 24 NC counties — voters saying they want the NC Forward Party recognized as an official political party and on the ballot.

More choices. Better debate. Common-sense solutions.

#NCVoters #ForwardParty #ncpol

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

At our May Townhall, former Republican Governor Pat McCrory spoke about a concern many voters share: too much political power is concentrated in too few hands.

That is not a Republican problem or a Democratic problem.

It is a system problem.

When a small number of leaders control too much of the process, voters lose influence. Good ideas can get buried. Practical solutions can be blocked. And elected officials become more accountable to party power than to the people they represent.

The Forward Party is working to change that.

We believe voters deserve more competition, more transparency, and more elected officials who answer to the public first.

That starts with ballot access.

Want to help get the Forward Party on the ballot in North Carolina?

Reach out. Let us know you want to sign. We will help get the petition to you.

@patmccrorync

#NCVoters #ForwardParty #NorthCarolina #Accountability #BallotAccess #ncpol

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

Proud to Be American Series — Week 20: Progress Is Uneven, but Real

America works best when our institutions are strong enough to check one another.

We need a strong Congress.
A strong Judiciary.
A strong Presidency.

Not one branch dominating the others.

The Founders understood that liberty depends on each institution guarding its own powers jealously. Checks and balances are not obstacles to progress. They are how a free country corrects course.

For North Carolina. For independent voters. For a more perfect union.

#NCVoters #ForwardParty #ProudToBeAnAmerican

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

The NC Forward Party believes voters should hear more about bills that affect everyday life — not just the political fights that dominate headlines.

North Carolina’s healthcare SAVE Act is one of those bills.

Not the federal voting bill; same acronym, very different issue.

This bill has historically had bipartisan support because it addresses a real problem: access to care.

It would allow advanced practice registered nurses to work more fully within their education, training, and licensure.

We support more providers, less red tape, lower costs, and better access — with appropriate transparency and safety standards to make sure reform actually serves patients.

#NCVoters #ForwardParty #ncpol #Healthcare

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

Former Republican Governor Pat McCrory made another important point at our May Townhall: voters need better civic education.

A healthy democracy depends on voters understanding how government works, how elections work, and how decisions are actually made.

Too often, our politics rewards slogans over understanding.

The Forward Party believes we need to do the opposite.

We need more voters who are informed, engaged, and empowered to ask better questions of every candidate and every party.

Ballot access is part of that work.

More choices on the ballot means more competition, more debate, and more accountability to voters.

If you want to help us get the Forward Party on the ballot in North Carolina, reach out. Petitions must be signed in person, and we hold events every week across the state.

@patmccrorync

#NCVoters #ForwardParty #NorthCarolina #CivicEducation #BallotAccess #ncpol

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

@J83310935 You’re arguing about theoretical examples that may occur in theory but extremely infrequent in practice.

While current primary voting in NC with less than 50% winners is an extremely common occurrence.

The worst enemy of a really good plan is the search of a perfect one

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

When Forward Party candidates are elected, one reform we will advocate for and work to pass is instant runoff voting for primaries.

Here’s why.

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

@J83310935 If IRV was based on eliminating the highest vote getters you’d have a point. But it is based on the opposite.

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

@J83310935 Thanks for the response. But it is considering the will of the voters. It’s based on their votes. Every round.

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More than 7,000 combat boots were displayed at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, honoring fallen U.S. service members ahead of Memorial Day.

Each boot represents a service member killed in action after 9/11.

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

This morning, we pause to remember the Americans who gave their lives in service to our country.

Their sacrifice belongs to no party.

It belongs to every family who has carried the weight of loss.
Every community that has sent sons and daughters into harm’s way.
Every generation that inherited freedoms secured by people they may never know by name.

Memorial Day is not just a day off. It is a day of remembrance.

And remembrance should call us to something higher.

A country worthy of that sacrifice must be one where citizenship still matters. Where service is honored. Where disagreement does not become hatred. Where we remember that, before we are Republicans, Democrats, or independents, we are Americans.

For North Carolina.
For those who served.
For those who never came home.
For a more perfect union.

#MemorialDay #NCVoters #ForwardParty

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

Proud to Be American — Act 19

America’s founding promise was powerful.

But for too long, “we” did not include everyone.

Women and minorities were excluded from full citizenship, voting, and belonging.

The pride is not that we were perfect.

The pride is that Americans kept widening the circle.

#ProudToBeAmerican #NCVoters #ForwardParty

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

Better primaries create better general elections.

And better incentives create better politics.

When Forward candidates are elected, we will work to pass instant runoff voting for primaries.

#NCVoters

[North Carolina Forward Party @ForwardPartyNC]

That means candidates have to build coalitions.

They have to persuade beyond their base.

They have to become acceptable to a majority of their own party’s voters.

That seems like a pretty low bar.